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From: spenser@lcs-test.co.uk [mailto:spenser@lcs-test.co.uk]
Sent: 10 March 2009 09:00
To: MINISTERS, Dcsf
Subject: The Legal Services Act - The LCS/SRA - could be for MoJ
Dear Beverley Hughes
The Legal Services Act - The LCS/SRA
The Legal Services Act – A Complete Waste of Time for the Public?
It is with great regret that I write to inform you that Clementi, the Legal Services Act and all of the hard work put in by our MP's may have been a complete waste of time.
It appears that as long ago as 2005 a bright young Law Society Executive, Ms. Aman Virk, developed an infallible method of navigating the complex delta-streams of future probability. This startling new technique has enabled the Law Society (and now the All-New “independent” Solicitors Regulation Authority) to deal with solicitor misconduct up to three years BEFORE it takes place. No more backlogs of complaints. No more fines from the LSO. Just pure "regulation" as never before seen?
Please consider the political ramifications should this technique spreads to other areas. Criminals can now be convicted up to three years BEFORE they commit their crime. Judges need only pass a one-day sentence; to start on the day the offender is GOING to commit the crime. Since the offender is in prison at the critical time, the crime ITSELF is abolished. A Crime-Free Britain and massive savings to the taxpayer. I feel sure this "future gazing" will end the Credit Crunch too, though it may spell an end to the National Lottery. The consequences for ALL of us are quite staggering.
There are perhaps two other possible explanations.:-
1. The New SRA is indistinguishable from the old OSS/CCS. They are LYING to protect mal-practicing solicitors they KNOW to be guilty.
2. The New SRA is so STUPID that all sharp objects should be taken away from them NOW.
Back in 2004 my MP, Dan Norris, helped me when I was having trouble getting the (then OSS) to investigate a serious complaint against a local law firm. He succeeded in getting the file transferred to the Parliamentary Casework Team… who did exactly NOTHING – the same old Willing Blindness that has dogged the Law Society for 30 years or more – they laugh at mere MP’s
In 2008 ANOTHER solicitor from the SAME law firm signed a similar false declaration on a bill of costs. “A most serious disciplinary offence” according to a prominent Law Lord – attempting to claim £1000’s the firm was NOT entitled to - tantamount to criminal fraud. On 23rd October 2008 the Association of Law Costs Draughtsmen (ALCD) fined its Member £5,000 with £500 costs for HIS part in the SAME misconduct. Under Law Society Rules it is the SOLICITOR not Costs Draughtsman that is responsible. We live in a Britain where the “monkey” gets fined and the “organ grinder” (who stood to gain far more from this deception) gets off Scott-free. Why? Because the so-called Solicitors Regulation Authority claim that this misconduct (in 2008) was dealt with back in 2005. This has nothing to do with “Persistent Genes” – it is simply a veritable “Crock”.
Some of you will no doubt remember the address by Dr. Vince Cable (just before the summer recess) where he told you that (in 2007) the CAB had 300,000 cases with a legal dimension referred to it, a quarter of which involved the conduct of the solicitors involved. These are YOUR Constituents – about 75,000 of them each year.
Please , PLEASE – if these people approach YOU for help, do not ignore them. Please ALSO refer them to www.lcs-test.co.uk – The Independent Test of the so-called “regulators” in 2008/09. We have a survey, which is open to anyone who has made an official complaint in the past 10 years. At very least it is better they know the TRUTH so they can prepare for further injustice. If you would like to receive a copy of our final Report at the end of the year then please respond to this email.
Back in the 2004 Which? Report, one person described the Law Society as “a body that is ‘drinking at the same waterhole’ as the legal hyenas it purports to be checking up on.” I suggest the very same is true of the LCS/SRA in 2009. Over 30 years, many Governments, many reforms and the SAME raw deal for everyone… EXCEPT corrupt and incompetent solicitors. Why?
Spenser Poultney (09/03/2009)
Will the OLSO Act THIS time, or will they protect the SRA?
Check http://www.lcs-test.co.uk/HomeNav.htm to find out. http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2008-07-22b.222.0
Spenser Poultney
Endersley
Welton Road
Radstock
BA3 3UD
spenser@lcs-test.co.uk
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